Nay_sayer
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I got bored assembling ARs and decided to buy something ugly, older and bubba’d to work with and make into a fun shooter. I settled on the this rifle as it was a Mauser (I think) so parts should be cheap and available, it was cheap, it looked workable and is (supposedly) already converted to 7.62x51 which is a caliber I already have. I did remove the horrible red thumb hole stock for good the minute I got the rifle home
The rifle was labeled as a “Waffen Fabrike” Mauser 7.62x51 -Bubba Gun- at my LGS and it indeed does have some markings that say “...nsfabrike...” which I assume is Waffensfabriken/DWM and also what appears to be a faint “Berlin” with only the bottom half really visible. It’s kinda hard to read all of this around the holes bubba drilled for a scope mount and the pitting. One of the old-guy regulars at my LGS said that it was an M96 Mauser. The serial number is 187 so I’m guessing it’s an early version of whatever it is. My LGS was happy to talk with me about what they knew of the gun but they got it with a bunch of other ugly bubba guns and didn’t know much about it.
I don’t know squat about Mausers that I haven’t read on the internet over the last couple of days but I don’t see the cut out on the left side of the action just in front of the bolt removal lever that I’ve seen on the M96’s online. Can one of you please tell me what this rifle actually is?
The rifle was labeled as a “Waffen Fabrike” Mauser 7.62x51 -Bubba Gun- at my LGS and it indeed does have some markings that say “...nsfabrike...” which I assume is Waffensfabriken/DWM and also what appears to be a faint “Berlin” with only the bottom half really visible. It’s kinda hard to read all of this around the holes bubba drilled for a scope mount and the pitting. One of the old-guy regulars at my LGS said that it was an M96 Mauser. The serial number is 187 so I’m guessing it’s an early version of whatever it is. My LGS was happy to talk with me about what they knew of the gun but they got it with a bunch of other ugly bubba guns and didn’t know much about it.
I don’t know squat about Mausers that I haven’t read on the internet over the last couple of days but I don’t see the cut out on the left side of the action just in front of the bolt removal lever that I’ve seen on the M96’s online. Can one of you please tell me what this rifle actually is?
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